Michael Devlin's season has come to an abrupt end after being ruled out of the Premiership play-off final against Dundee United.

The Hamilton Accies captain is suspended for the second leg at New Douglas Park but an injury picked up at the weekend means he will now also miss Thursday's first leg at Tannadice.

A statement from the club confirmed the defender had suffered a tear in his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

It said: "Skipper Michael Devlin, 23, who was substituted and stretchered off in the first half of Saturday's 4-0 win over Dundee, has now had the diagnosis from the medics and experts.

"Michael underwent a scan at hospital yesterday (Monday), and has had the results and subsequent discussions with our medical department and his own family late this afternoon.

"With Michael's permission we can now confirm that he has unfortunately suffered a tear in his ACL (anterior cruciate ligament).

"He will now deal with our medics on the proposed operation or rehab as appropriate, and all of us at Accies wish him a full recovery."

Devlin was stretchered off 37 minutes into his side's 4-0 win over Dundee at the weekend.

Manager Martin Canning said: "It's a huge blow, Michael is an important player and he's had a great season for us as well.

"But we always knew he would be missing on Sunday anyway so now it's only one game he's going to miss that he could have played in.

"It's an opportunity now for someone to come in and do a good job."

Devlin misses the second leg because he crossed the points threshold of yellow cards when he was booked against Motherwell on May 13. The suspension takes a fortnight to kick in.